ArcadianRefugee:lostcat: FYI, the Japanese (and plenty of others) think we're a bunch of pussies because we can't chew small bones.

Well, la-dee-freaking-dah. I'm sure we would have superpowers, too, if we'd all been exposed to high levels of radiation.

/kind of a lame superpower, though

Not really a superpower. Your jaw can easily chew those bones. They are actaully good for you. It's just that we've grown so accustomed to having the bones removed from our food that we can't deal with food that has bones in. Even eating fried chicken, we tend to be prissy and leave plenty of non-bone material clining to the bones.

I once visited a restaurant that had a dish that was prepared as follows: About 8 or 9 eel-shaped fish were swimming in a bowl of water that was being slowly heated. Once the fish got agitated from the heat, the chef dropped a cool block of tofu inside the pot. In order to cool off, the fish would bury themselves in the cold tofu. Once the fish were completely buried in the cold tofu, the chef would crank up the heat until cooked.